Eleven awards for EAVE producers in Sarajevo
Awards August 2014
- LOS HONGOS by Oscar Ruiz Navia, co-producers: Puentes 2010 graduate Jaime Romandía, EAVE + 2013 graduate Titus Kreyenberg won the Special Prize of the Jury at the Locarno International Film Festival.
- DIE FRAU DES POLIZISTEN by Philip Gröning, line-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Martin Blankemeyer received a Special Mention at the Motovun Film Festival.
- FORCE MAJEURE (TURIST) by Ruben Östlund, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Marie Kjelsson won the FIPRESCI Prize.
EAVE graduates have been extremely successful at the Sarajevo Film Festival, winning 11 awards:
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM
- HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FEATURE FILM went to SONG OF MY MOTHER by Erol Mintas, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Asli Erdem, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
- SPECIAL JURY AWARD for BRIDES (PATARDZLEBI), produced and directed by EAVE 2009 graduate Tinatin Kajrishvili
- HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTRESS to Mari Kitia in BRIDES (PATARDZLEBI), produced and directed by EAVE 2009 graduate Tinatin Kajrishvili
- HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTOR for Feyyaz Duman in SONG OF MY MOTHER by Erol Mintas, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Asli Erdem, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
- HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST SHORT FILM was awarded to THE CHICKEN by Uma Gunjak, co-producers: EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisa Juricic and B’EST 2013 graduate Jelena Goldbach
CINELINK AWARDS
- EAVE SCOLARSHIP AWARD for the 2014 European Producers Workshop went to producer Ipek Kent with the project 16 PRODUCER
- The CNC CINELINK AWARD went to PARI by Siamak Etemadi, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Konstantinos Kontovrakis
WORK IN PROGRESS AWARDS
- The Restart Award goes to OUR EVERYDAY LIFE by Ines Tanovic, co-producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Zdenka Gold
SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVALA PARTNERS AWARDS
- The CINEUROPA PRIZE was awarded to THREE WINDOWS AND A HANGING by Isa Qosja, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Shkumbin Istrefi, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards
- The CICAE AWARD went to MACONDO by Sudabeh Mortezai, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Oliver Neumann
DOCU ROUGH CUT BOUTIQUE AWARDS
- SOME DAY, directed and produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Monica Monica Lazurean-Gorgan received the HBO Adria Award and the Cat&Dogs Award
- BLIND by Eskil Vogt, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen received four Amandas at at the Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund – best actress, best director, best editing and best sound design.
- A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT by Erik Poppe, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Lesley McKimm was awarded Best Norwegian Feature.
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- WHITE SHADOW by Noaz Deshe, co-producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Alexander Wadouh won the Grand Prize and the Audience Award of the New Horizons International Film Festival Wroclaw.
- PUENTES 2011 project HISTORY OF FEAR (HISTORIA DEL MIEDO) by Benjamin Naishtat, producer: PUENTES 2011 graduate Benjamin Domenech was awarded the FIPRESCI prize.
- SUPERNOVA by Tamar van den Dop, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Raymond van der Kaaij won the Grand Jury Award of International Cinema Competition at the 8th FIRST International Film Festival Xining.
- EXTRA ORDINARY by Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman, producers: EAVE 2014 participant Ailish Bracken and EAVE 2005 graduate Katie Holly won the Frontieres Pitching Award at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival.
- EAVE 2010 graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen is the latest recipient of the Roos Award, Denmark’s most prestigious honour in documentary filmmaking.
Page published 27 August 2014. Updated 29 August 2014.
